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Panelists:

Alonso Cervera, Chief Economist for Latin America, Credit Suisse

Antonio Ortiz-Mena, Senior Vice President, Albright Stonebridge Group

Jorge Suárez-Vélez, Columnist, Reforma and CNN

Lisa Schineller, Managing Director, S&P Global Ratings (moderator)

The worst thing that could happen for Mexico's exchange rate would be a victory by the ruling party's José Antonio Meade, not a win by populist frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). If the governing PRI wins 2 of 9 gubernatorial races, it should count itself lucky. One bright spot in the midst of this election cycle is agreement that something needs to be done about Mexico's stubbornly high poverty levels.